His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

I am not the river I am the net.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.